School children across Prince William struggling with reading, new data show Jeanine Lawson and Peter Candland were two of three members of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors to shuffle out of a School Board training session on Implicit bias, a section of a larger training on Critical Race Theory.
With tens of thousands of children out of a classroom, School Board focused instead on racism training
Prince William County’s youngest and most vulnerable students are struggling to read.
New Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening data for the Prince William County School Division obtained exclusively by PLN show an alarming increase of students from kindergarten through third grade who need reading help. The test, required by the Virginia Department of Education to be given to children in the aforementioned grade levels, is used to identify gaps that could hinder the development of a child’s reading skills.